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UFC 66 -

Did the payperview thing at my house last night for another killer UFC - \
A lot of good fights - not GREAT fights but good ones - all ofthem  

Matt and his bro - ryan came over (ryans leaving for iraq in a few days - Good Luck Ryan - give em hell) + some other cats including Chris who is helping me fix this websites boards

Chuck Liddell finally shut Tito`s big mouth who admitted that he just can`t beat Liddell.  The fight was almost stopped at the end of the 1st round but Big John was good enough to let it go - Rnd 2 was pretty lame and then Chuck beat on him in round 3 and won  it

I was disappointed that Forest Lost - I was hoping for a 3 round brawl but Mean Jardine caught Forest and stunned him and ended the fight convincingly

Read Story of fights

My First Mobile Posting

Testing

It worked , I made my first blogpost with my palm treo phone.  I`m high tech baby !!!!

Saddam death 'ends dark chapter'

So long Saddam , no tears shed her -

CLICK ME for Obituary

Maine - Acadia National Park

A few weeks back , Lori and I went on a long weekend trip to Maine , we stayed in Bar Harbor in a nice bed and breakfast and spent a few days in Acadia National Park. Beautiful , man - beautiful
The park is basically a driving park , driving winding scenic roads throughtout the park (27 mile loop trail + some further less popular but just as beautiful areas )
Every other turn is a beautiful bluff overlooking mountains , or ocean , or the fjord (steep walled inlet of a sea created by glacial gouging.) or lakes , or just ridiculous views of ridiculous distances - There are a number of Site Attraction stops , such as Cadilac mountain where you drive to the top of one of the tallest peaks in the northeast , Thunder hole where the ocean meets the rocky surf , at one point we were on a trail that climbed a mountain where our view was of a lake beneath us , the fjord to the left of us(i didn`t know the us had fjords , i thought that was icelands claim to fame ), over other mountains , Islands and the ocean beyond in a 280 degree radius , unfreakin believable -http://www.acadia.national-park.com/
Did a lot of hiking, and checking out some natural beauty of the world.
bar harbor is a tourist town with all the specialty shops hawking all sorts of crap and some pretty good restaurants- not much in the way of bars but we had a couple of drinks in a few spots
The bed and breakfast was cool , nice place , nice room - good breakfast - we stayed at the primrose inn. http://www.primroseinn.com/

Back from Aruba

Came back from a weeklong vacation in Aruba, Lori and I went with Phil and Karen , stayed at a FREE timeshare thanks to one of PHils clients...Had a great time

back to work for the short week. It only took a short week to beat the vacation right out of me. Thats just how it is
I`ll have some pics from vaca up soon

Jets Draft

Jets shored up their offensive liner with their 2 number one pics , A top tackle and the top center in the draft. Its not flashy like a QB or RB , but you need a line if you want a QB or RB to do anything productive

I`m bored

life has no meaning
blah

Its almost spring

April is here , we have a few nice warm days ...woohoo

Lori and I went hiking the last 2 weekends , this weekend the hiking was great , last weekend ....well...

We went to middletown ct , and hiked a trail called bear hill loop. It was to be a 4mile , moderately difficult trail. Well , about 5 miles in we realized that this damn trail was not LOOPING... and by moderately difficult , they meant at points we are on our hands and knees climbing up or down rocy faces. Then....
It starts to downpour ...Hard. Now I`m in a bit of a panic as we were COMPLETELY UNPREPARED for a real hike , I left my phone in the car , we had one 12 oz water , no backpack , flashlight , layer of clothes , compass , blah blah blah , All those things your supposed to have if you are hiking.
Well we find another trail that seemed to be going in the direction we wanted , Down and out...we walk this trail at like 20 miles an hour ...I may be exaggerating. And then ...
We find a road ....woo hoo , hee
This is NOT the road by our car ... This was NOT the Loop !
The road goes both ways as far as the eye can see , NOWHERE
I pick a direction
Left
Walk Walk WAlk WALK
2 1/2 miles later we see what looks like civilization
Its not
Its a pratt and whitney plant - and a DEAD END
Turn around
WALK WALK WALK WALK
back to where we started
Keep walking ...1 mile later we are at the road that takes us to our car
2.5 more miles
UPHILL (no lie , this time i`m not exaggerating)
A half marathon and 5+ hours later we end our hike and hop in the car

NOW we have a hiking backpack , a gps navigator , my phone always , first aid kit , flashlights , batteries , maps , water bottle , etc; etc;

Today we hike , with our stuff
We go to burlington ct , Sessions wildlife Park
3 miles , It actually is a real loop and the entire trail is gravel laid.
We don`t really need the gps system
We bring it all anyway

It was a pretty cool trail , had a lot of side trails (in and out style) that had Blind overlooks at dams , wetlands , beaver dams , tree and bird sanctuarys etc;
like the zoo , it had a bunch of signs with animal or habitat blurbs and info
The reason I picked this trail was the waterfalls , which didn`t disappoint
Not super long , tall , large or voluminous but was still one of the prettiest falls we`ve seen (appx 10-12)
Split boulders allowed 3 fingers of downward drops , in between sharp rocks and down a pretty stream. It was pretty neat
That was why we hike...
oh yeah , hit a nice chili cheese dog shack on the way home

Happy Birthday all ya`ll pisces

Yaro`s girl Sammies bday ... Franny , Me , My sister Jamie , all celebrate early march birthdays and of course Scottio`s wife Lisa , who we surprised the heck out of on Sunday at Scotts parents house.

Had a nice weekend , hung with all the boys and girls + a longtime missing friend , DAVE !!!! Whats up Bruddah...we had a lot of fun ...We hit the old gardiners in levittown off the turnpike , which is been renamed for the 8th time or so....and then ended up at a bowling alley for Karaoke.
Invited my sister and her boyfriend out to party , very rarely done in our relationship , and we had a good time together...I think the rambunctious Lot of us might have overwhelmed Oscar (her boyfriend) a bit , but I think he enjoyed himself too.
Drank a bunch , laughed alot and of course the 4am diner trip ....
Laid around alot on Sunday until we hit the surprise party for lisa who strolled in unawares ,carrying a box of dunkin donuts , thinking it was gonna be a low key family dinner ...SURPRISE----yeah girl , you need a few more donuts than That !
Twas a good weekend...much needed
Kevin

Bday Weekend

Had a great bday weekend , took Lori up to a bed and breakfast Inn in Conway New Hampshire , about a 4 hour drive. Its beautiful up there , we took a scenic route thru the mountains (kanagmangus highway) and hit a few stops ...two easy hike in frozen waterfalls. REally cool. I`ll post some of the pics next week

we stayed at the 1785 inn , and it definitely was an old inn. The upstairs rooms were sort of cockeyed with a gentle sloping from one end to the other. It was a nice place and has been updated , but underneath it all is a 200 yr old skeleton that has sagged and leaned and swelled. Great breakfast , and nice bar right downstairs with a friendly bartender. We ate dinner there one night too and I had Elk Steak ... KILLER KILLER steak dudes and dudettes...If you ever have the opportunity ...take it

I did some skiing at cranmore mountain , real easy but fun mountain, ...we did a little hiking but it was kinda cold and Lori pussed out on a hike to see the Flume Gorge which is supposed to be a beautiful waterfall and deep ravine.
Anyway , it was nice to get out of the burbs and into the country. There wasn`t enough cover to go cross-country skiing so probably have to try that out next year.

talk at ya`ll soon
Kevin

More Friggin Snow !!!

Great , another snowstorm- about 8in coming today. Love it !!

Is winter ever going to end ?

At least I`m taking off this weekend. Going up to new hampshire , the White Mountains area , for a long weekend (bday weekend for me !)
Staying in a bed and breakfast Inn .... Gonna do some skiing , and amybe drag Lori out for some snow shoeing.
Maybe spring will be here when I get back
Kevin

Smoke `em if you got `em

The U.S Congress is one of the few indoor workplaces in the U.S where it is still legal to smoke. Congrss is exempted from workplace laws that govern the rest of the country.

And they think we don`t understand them ?

Palestine elects terrorist organization - Hamas into government power

Iraqis picked shiite leader Al-Jaafari over a moderate as a interim prime minister , , because he aligned himself with the violent theocrist cleric -Al Sadyr (the man who staged the uprising against the army and hid their militia and weapons in mosques daring us to fire)

Iran (truly a theocracy run by radical clerics)- the people removed former pro - western (albeit ineffective) president and voted in Ahmadineja , a radical who promptly became the fundamentalist mouthpiece for the mullahs. They promptly threaten the world with nuclear aquisition.

The muslim world`s ridiculous over reaction rioting in response to the danish-cartoons have now caused nearly 20 deaths and millions of dollars of damage to embassies .

Remember the riots in afghanistan from the bogus story of interrogators flushing Korans down a toilet (Proved to be a lie)

In France Muslims continue to riot nearly every other week in response to various serious offenses such as the ban on head scarves in public schools.

An indonesian islamic court sentences two Australian 20ish yr old drug smugglers to death by Firing squad (australian gov`t is appealing for clemency)

A turkish movie was released this week depicting american soldiers fighting Turkish special forces (based on the true story of turks who crossed the border to put down the kurds in iraq) sporting Mohawks , brandishing bibles , shooting children point-black. Also shows US doctors harvesting organs from dead soldiers and shipping them to Israel.

Islamic Jihadis have killed schoolchildren in Beslan, Chechneya, which was part of the former Soviet Union. They have beheaded little Christian girls in Indonesia. They have killed Western tourists in Bali.

September 11th

I think we understand them just fine.
Kevin Beary

The Lost Boards

Knowledge and Reason : There are those that believe .....

The pursuit of knowledge is its own goal , is its own virtue. "Knowledge is knowledge about reality. Its base is perception, and its method is reason." The attainment of knowledge primarily through the use of the one unrivaled gift of mankind , Reason ,is in and of itself a moral right. It is beauty. It is its own reward.
There are those that believe knowledge is a weapon to be wielded at the ignorant. There are those that believe that the flaunting of knowledge is self-empowering. There are those who present opinions , feelings , vague notions , or Instincts , and call it knowledge.
It is not.
Reason is the means of integrating our perceptions into concept and gaining knowledge. The method of reason applies the use of logic, deduction, and induction. There are no feelings , Reason is absolute and should only produce emotions at its creation and existence and its beauty , not at fancy espousings , not at its ability to "make one look good" when flaunting a pretense of it. That is whats called Rhetoric , which can be used to attain knowledge when wielded by two or more open and reasoning minds,but more often is simply argumentative,aimed not to
gain knowledge but to confuse it ; the arguing itself is the "Showdog" and the prize.
I know a friend who lost his proof of his knowledge , and he was lost. I felt for him not because of his actual loss but for his misconception that knowledge , or genius , is something that must be "shown" or "flaunted" for it to have worth. By the very definitions I put forth , this is absolutely untrue , and if held as truth by my poor friend , sheds light on his epistemology , and shows it to be mere sophistry.

Signed ,
Who else but the guilty can righteously recognize and accuse

Shall we Dance ?

Lori and I watched this movie , a rental from Netflix

Richard Gere , Susan Surandon , Jennifer Lopez. One would think this could make for a good movie cast. If you like romantic comedies I guess it was a cute movie but if you ask my opinion , it was nothing but unthinking fluff.

This movie was light , airy and unimportant like the foam-scum from stagnant surf.

I don`t reccomend it

My first Blog

I screwed up big , In attempting to create a splash page blog I promptly erased my entire site. I had to upload the entire site from my computer which does not have the message boards. Therefore the message boards are irretrievably lost. I`m very pissed. I will redo a message board soon but for now I`m too dejected

Heres my blog
Kevin